In this Code With Me, I challenged myself to start building a Python Tetris game using Pygame—and I’ll be honest, this is not a step-by-step tutorial. These videos are more about me picking a project that feels slightly too hard, breaking it down, and learning in public so you feel motivated to do the same. Because Tetris has a lot of moving parts, I decided to structure it with OOP: I sketched out the core classes I’d need (board, tile, shapes/rotations, and eventually the “ground” for deposited pieces), plus the algorithms that make Tetris feel like Tetris—movement, rotation, collision detection, and row clearing. In Part 1, I set up a fresh repo and virtual environment, installed dependencies, and built the game scaffolding: the board matrix, screen rendering, and a Tetris “game” class with a clock so pieces fall at a steady speed. I also created all the tetromino shapes as coordinate sets inside a 4x4 grid, stored their rotation states in memory, and added a color palette so the game looks nice. By the end, I’m randomly spawning tiles, rendering them on the board, and handling keyboard input to move left/right/down and rotate—plus debugging classic Pygame gotchas like rerender order and accidentally overwriting state. Next up in Part 2: ground logic, collision detection, and clearing completed rows with cascading.